† coster-wife Obs.
[f. costard apple + wife: cf. costermonger.]
A woman that keeps a stall for the sale of apples, and the like, an ‘apple-wife’.
| 1661 K. W. Conf. Charact., Univ. Beadle (1860) 72 You'd take him for some bearded London coster-wife newly drest up on a munday morning. |